Truck-stake



A. MILLS.

TRUCK STAKE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.7,1919.

1,333,990. Patented Mar. 16,1920.

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ARTHUR MILLS, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. v

TRUCK-STAKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed April '7, 1919. Serial No; 288,039.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR MILLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Truclc Stakes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to standards or stakes for trucks, trailers and other vehicles and has for its object the provision of a comparatively simple and thoroughly efficient device of this character, capable of being readily inserted within or removed from a receiving pocket, and which, when in posi tion therein, against accidental displacement without the employment of bolts, hooks or similar fastening devices.

The invention further aims toprovide a truck stake having a resilient retaining strap surrounding the sides and bottom thereof and adapted to be compressed and frictionally engage the walls of the receiving pocket when the stake is positioned therein.

The invention further contemplates novel means for retaining the resilient strap in position on the stake or standard and means I for permitting a limited lateral expansion and contraction-of the lower portion of the strap. I V

A further object is to'provide a novel form of receiving pocket for the lower end of the stake, and means carried by said stake and adapted to bear against the upper end of the pocket for limiting the downward movement of the stake within said pocket.

A. still further object of the invention is generally to improve this classof devices so as to increase their utility, durability and efficiency.

In the accompanying drawings: I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stake or standard embodying the'presentinvention showing the same in position on a truck;

, Fig. 2 1s a longitudinal sectional view of the stake detached;

Fig. 3 is a on the line the direction of the arrows;

Fig. & is a perspective view illustrating a modified form of receiving pocket,

Corresponding and like parts are referred transverse sectional View taken ,to in the following description and indicated will be effectually supported 33 of Fig. 2 and looking in in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved stake or standard forming the subject-matter of the present invention is designed for attachment to trucks, trailers and other vehicles and comprises a body portion 5, preferably formed of wood and having its lower end curved or rounded trans versely, as indicated at 6. Secured to the opposite side faces of the body, portion 5 near the lower portion thereof, are securing plates 7 the lower ends of which project longitudinally beyond the curved end 6 of the stake to form spaced longitudinal lips 8. The plates 7 are each preferably stamped or otherwise formed from a single sheet of metal and are secured to the adjacent side faces of the stake by bolts, rivets or similar fastening devices 9. The metal constituting each plate 7 is out or stamped to produce oppositely disposed cars 10, which ears are bent'laterally against the adjacent'longitudinal edges of the standard 5 for engagement with a retaining strap, indicated at 11. The retaining strap 11 is preferably formed of a single length of resilient metal, the intermediate portion of which is extended around and bears against the curved end 6 of thestake, while the opposite ends of the strap are interposed between the ears 10 and the adjacent longitudinal edges of the stake with the terminals thereof curled or bent into cylindrical form to produce stops 12 the stake is inserted in a receiving pocket the strap 11 will be compressed, thereby causing the strap to frictionally engage the inner wall of the pocket and effectually retain the stake within said pocket without the employment of bolts, hooks or similar fastening devices. Each plate 7 is also preferably provided with oppositely disposed inwardly extending guide lugs 1a which bear against the adjacent longitudinal edges of the strap at the bowed portion thereof and act as a combined guide and keeper for the strap. I

The receiving pocket for the stake may be inforcing the standard it found d .hicle in which adevice of this char of the usual construction, indicated at 15 in Fig. 4 of the drawings, but it is preferred to pocket.

The lugs It not oniy serve to prc nt undue lateral expansion of the retanin g strap 11 but by engagement: with the upper wall of the receiving pocket or casing 18 serve to limit the downward movement of the stake within said pocket as will be readily under stood. As the lips 8 projectlongitudinall3 beyond the curved end 6 lows that said lips serve to center the retaining strap in position on the stake and pie rent lateral thereof. Attention is here called to the fact that as the stake is inserted within its pocri'et the initial downward movement of the stake will cause the intermediate portion of the strap to frictionally bear against the carver wall 6 of the stake and a further movement thereof will compress the side walls of the strap so as to cause it to firmly contact with thewall ofthe pocket. Furthermore, owing to the resiliency of the retaining strap 12, wabbling or rattling of the stake within its pocket is prevented and liability of friction and wear on the parts correspondingly decreased. lVhile it is preferred to have the upper ends of the retaining strap terminate at a point directly above ti 1e securing ears 1O *ill, of obtuse be understood that the ends of said strap may, it desircrh be continued longitudinally throughout the entire length of the stake or standard so a necessary in actual practice. 7

The devices may be made in different sizes and shapes and applied to any type of veacter is found desirable or applicable.

.Havingthusdescribed the invention, what 1 claimed as new is:

1 .'The combination with a. receiving pocket, of stake having a. resilient retaining strap secured thereto, the side walls of which are normally spar-ed from the. adiacent edges or the stake and adapted to be coinpre 1 for retaining the d when inserted within the pocket stake :psition.

2. The combination with n receiving pocket, of a stake, and a resilient retaining strap having its intermediate portion ex tending around the lower end of the. stake of the stake, it foldisplacement of the low .r end stake in position.

.ment of the stake and its opposite ends fastened to thelongt tudinal edges thereof, said strap being adapted to ifrictio-nally engage the war-is of. the pocket when the stake is inserted therein.

3. T e combination with a receiving pocket, of a removable stake fitting within the pocket, side plates secured to the stake and provided with anchoring ears, and resilient mtainin strap fitting beneath said ears and having its intermediate portion er; tended around the bottom of thee-take, said strap by engagement with the walls of the pocket serving to prevent accidental displacement of said stake.

The combination with a receiving pocket, of a stake'fitting within the pocket, plates secured to the opposite faces of the stake and provided with ears fitting over the adjacent longitudinal edges of said stake, guide lugs extending from the plates in spaced relation to the ears, and a resilient retaining strap having its ends fitting. beneath the ears and its intermediate portion extended betweenthe lugs and fitting around the end of said stake. I r

5. The combination with receiving pocket, of a stake fitting within the pocket, oppositely disposed plates secured to the side faces of the stake and having their ends projecting longitudinally beyond the lower. ends of the stake to form spaced lips, and a resilient retaining strap extending around the bottom of the stake between the-lips and having its ends anchored to the longitudinal edges of thestakasaid strap being adapted to frictionallyengage the walls of the pocketfor preventing accidental displacement of the stake.

6. The combination with a receiving pocket, of a stake rremovablyseated Within said pocket, oppositely disposed plates se cured to thestake and provided with inturned ears,.said plates being extended lonneath the ears and bent to formrstoploops and its intermediateportion'fitting around the lower end of the stake between the lips, the sides of'the retainingstrap being nor-v mally spaced from the adjacent edges-of the stake and adapted to be compressed when inserted within the pocket for retaining the deceiving. the pocket.

7. The. combination with a pocket, of a stake fitting within side-plates. secured to thestake and n1: yided V with intnrned anchoring earsn a resilientretaining strap fitting beneath said ears :and extendin around the bottom of tliesstake, and guide lugs ,carr'ed by the plates and the pocket for-limiting the downward move within said pocket.

.8. Astaire for.truckscomprisinga body adapted to bearagainsttheupper edge of portion having a transversely curved end and a resilient retaining strap having its intermediate portion extending around the curved end of the stake and its Opposite ends normally bowed laterally in spaced relation to the adjacent longitudinal edges of the stake with its terminals anchored thereto.

9. A stake for trucks comprising a body portion having its lower end curved translates secured to the opposite sidev versely, faces of the stake and havlng their ends projecting longitudinally beyond the curved end of said stake to form spaced lips, said plates being provided at their upper ends with inwardly extended ears fitting over the adjacent longitudinal edges of the stake and at their lower ends formed with converging guide lugs, and a resilient retaining strap having its intermediate portion extending around the curved end of the stake between the lips and thence extended upwardly in spaced relation to'the longitudinal edges of the stake and in contact with the guide lugs with the terminals of the strap extended beneath the ears and bent to form terminal stops contacting with said ears.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ARTHUR MILLS. 14. 5. 

